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Episcopal Church set to welcome 26th
presiding bishop
Transition continues in advance of
November 4 investiture
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[ENS] In the three
weeks before she formally takes office as the Episcopal Church's
26th Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori will complete
her work as bishop of the Diocese of Nevada while also entering
more fully into the national and international ministry to which
she has been elected.
Jefferts Schori officially becomes the 26th Presiding Bishop and
Pastor of the Episcopal Church on November 1, and her formal
investiture will occur Saturday, November 4, in Washington
National Cathedral.
Before arriving for meetings at the Episcopal
Church Center in New York on October 30, Jefferts Schori and
Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold will travel to London where
the two have accepted an invitation -- extended some months ago
-- to meet with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. At
Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop's official residence in London,
Griswold will introduce Jefferts Schori to Williams for the
first time.
The morning meeting at Lambeth Palace will occur the week prior
to the beginning of Jefferts Schori's nine-year term as
Presiding Bishop. She will also become one of the Anglican
Communion's 38 Primates, or principal leaders.
Read the full ENS article here.
living into the millennium development goals (mdgs)--
some updates
Anglicans worldwide prepare strategies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
[Anglican Communion News Service / ACNS] Anglican Archbishop of
Cape Town, Njongonkulu Ndungane, met with national and
international planning committee members last week to discuss an
international Anglican conference to be held in Gauteng, South
Africa from 7 to 14 March, 2007. 'Towards Effective Anglican
Mission (TEAM): An international conference on Prophetic
Witness, Social Development and HIV and AIDS' will include 400
representatives from every province in the Anglican Communion.
Priorities for the eight-day conference
will include the response of the Anglican Communion to the
Millennium Development goals (MDGs), an eight-pronged pronged
initiative whose aim is to cut extreme global poverty in half by
the year 2015, and analysis of the impact of the goals on
women and children.
Links: TEAM conference Web site
http://www.team2007.org/.
Read the full ACNS story here.
International policy analyst Alexander
Baumgarten on the Millennium Development Goals and the Episcopal
Church—
Video, audio available online
[ENS] Alexander Baumgarten, international policy analyst in the Office of Government Relations, talks about the Episcopal Church's commitment to the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the 75th General Convention as a mission priority for the next triennium, and upholds the importance of the ONE Campaign, an advocacy movement to make poverty history.
Listen to Baumgarten's remarks via the ENS site.
ERD and the Millennium Development Goals—
What ERD is
doing; what YOU can do
[From
an ERD release] At the start of the new millennium, leaders from
191 nations, including the United States, agreed on a plan to
cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015. Together, they
created eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Episcopal Church has also committed itself to achieving the MDGs. In two consecutive General Conventions, the Church has embraced the MDGs as a framework for action. Dioceses and churches across the nation have begun to respond.
Find out what's happening, and what YOU can do. Click
here.